KCL-00001060 Cisco Supply Maintenance and Consultancy

King's wired and wireless networks are all based on Cisco equipment. As part of the current Invitation to Tender and the associated requirement specification, there are several types of Cisco-related product/service that King's require:

• Maintenance and Supply
• Consultancy

Maintenance refers to the support of existing and new Cisco products that King's operate, and includes hardware and software maintenance, SWSS license management and renewal, break/fix, troubleshooting, Cisco TAC support for bug fixes, software updates, and on-site engineers.

Supply refers to the procurement of Cisco hardware, software, and license items, including pre-sales support, quotations, ordering, and delivery.

Consultancy refers to miscellaneous services relating to Cisco products that could include design work, engineering tasks, troubleshooting, advice, and other kinds of work package. The price, duration, effort etc. of this work would be agreed by the parties in advance.

The contract's initial period will be 3 years, extendable to 5.

Additional information:

This opportinuity is open to Cisco Gold Partners only.

Qualified Suppliers are required to register and express interest via the University`s electronic tendering site at the following URL: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/kcl/

The University reserves the right to cancel the tender process at any stage. The University does not accept any liability for any cost incurred in tendering. Please note all submissions must be made electronically unless otherwise expressed in the tender documents. All submissions will be subject to the University`s conditions of electronic submission found at the following URL:

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/orgstructure/ps/purchasing/suppliers/etender.aspx

All tenders must be priced in sterling and payments under the Contract will be made in sterling.

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No